Commit e7901af1 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v4.0-rc2-2' of...

Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v4.0-rc2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull seq-buf/ftrace fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "This includes fixes for seq_buf_bprintf() truncation issue.  It also
  contains fixes to ftrace when /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled and
  function tracing are started.  Doing the following causes some issues:

    # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
    # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
    # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
    # echo nop > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
    # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

  As well as with function tracing too.  Pratyush Anand first reported
  this issue to me and supplied a patch.  When I tested this on my x86
  test box, it caused thousands of backtraces and warnings to appear in
  dmesg, which also caused a denial of service (a warning for every
  function that was listed).  I applied Pratyush's patch but it did not
  fix the i...
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